New Tech Community Service

Scottsburg New Tech
is committed to encouraging our students to give back to their community
today and in the future. Each year, we spend a day in the spring and in
the fall going to various places in our community and working. Some of
the services we have provided have been raking leaves, painting,
landscaping, cleaning, and picking up trash. Over the past few years, we
have made it know to community members that our students are eager to
assist. Therefore, we continually have a list of volunteer opportunities
for students in our office.

Students are also
encouraged to go out and find volunteer opportunities in areas of their
interest. Students are allowed to count services completed as long as
they are not paid for their services and the service is not part of
their family responsibility. We have a form in the New Tech office that
the student fills out and gets signed by the person in charge of the
activity in order for the student to get credit for their hours.

Habitat for Humanity.

On
May 2, 2012, an EF-4 tornado swept through Henryville, Indiana causing
extensive damage. Not only did this tornado destroy businesses and
schools, but it destroyed the homes of many families.

After
many months of landscape planning and collaboration with Habitat for
Humanity representative Houser Canter, junior Emily Walker called the
entire school to help mend the devastation Scottsburg's neighboring
county underwent. After word went around that the entire school would be
involved in this project, students were quick to help. Geometry classes
created personalized landscape plans for each individual house, and
advisories were assigned a family. On March 2, 2013, our New Tech school
took a bus to Henryville, and landscaped ten houses in a subdivision.
This is one of the many community events Scottsburg New Tech has been a
part of. Click here to read about us on the New Tech Network page and here to read about us on the news!

Park Days

Each
year, New Tech participates in two "park days." During these park days,
students are bussed to numerous places including local parks,
courthouse, firehouse and other places around the community. Each
advisory is assigned an area and work together as a team to beautify our
county. After hours of work, students all meet in a common area and eat
together. This is just one of the events New Tech students participate
in.